Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 35
They are waiting on the shingle—will you come and join the dance?
Who acts: creatures, you · What happens: wait, come, join · To what, where: shingle, dance
This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (creatures, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 waiting | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 waiting | aux |
| 3 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 shingle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shingle | det |
| 6 | shingle | shingle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waiting | obl |
| 7 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 come | punct |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 come | aux |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 come | nsubj |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 waiting | parataxis |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 join | cc |
| 12 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 come | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dance | det |
| 14 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 join | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 waiting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | present · progressive | creatures = creature | the shingle | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shingle=Location | ||||
| 2 | come | future | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | join | infinitive | you not said here | the dance | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Project Gutenberg book 11 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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